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“Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
“Graduation day is tough for adults. They go to the ceremony as parents. They come home as contemporaries. After twenty-two years of child-raising, they are unemployed.”
Erma Bombeck
“I didn't graduate from any of them (Colleges) and look at me now mom!”
Billie Joe Armstrong
“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own.And you know what you know. You are the guy who'll decide where to go.”
Dr. Seuss
“We always see a few orders for wedding invitations with wedding dates around college graduation time, but this year there has been a sharp increase. It looks like couples are planning their weddings so they can honeymoon before they begin a new career.”
Deborah Gomia
“The last scene? I've got to tell you, everyone was bawling. People were just crying. It was like a graduation. It was very surreal. We all spoke about it earlier that day, but people were just breaking down. I mean, seven years, every day. You see people grow up, you grow up yourself, you see people going through ups and downs. It was hard for us.”
Mila Kunis
“Each year India and China produce four million graduates compared with just over 250,000 in Britain.”
Gordon Brown
“At my graduation, I thought we had to marry what we wished to become. Now you are becoming the men you once would have wished to marry.”
Gloria Steinem
“Think about it. If you are single, after graduation there isn't one occasion where people celebrate you. ... Hallmark doesn't make a "congratulations, you didn't marry the wrong guy" card. And where's the flatware for going on vacation alone?”
Sarah Jessica Parker
“I am not impressed by the Ivy League establishments. Of course they graduate the best -- it's all they'll take, leaving to others the problem of educating the country. They will give you an education the way the banks will give you money -- provided you can prove to their satisfaction that you don't need it.”
Peter De Vries